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Watch a cuttlefish transform into a leaf and a coral to hunt its prey

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Watch a cuttlefish transform into a leaf and a coral to hunt its prey

In new video footage, cuttlefish show off their dazzling camouflage techniques, such as creating stripes that move over their bodies or mimicking non-threatening objects

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Brazilian flea toad may be the world’s smallest vertebrate

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Shortage of male turtles could be solved by splash of cold seawater

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Postmenopausal orcas seem to prevent sons from getting into fights

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Basking sharks are one of the few warm-blooded species of fish

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Amazing fossil hints mammals hunted dinosaurs three times their size

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Fossil of pregnant ground sloth discovered with fetus inside

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Pigs open doors to free companions in a possible show of empathy

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Mass fish deaths will occur more often in rivers as UK gets hotter

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Bone disease in sabre-toothed tigers may be a sign of inbreeding

An analysis of bones from the La Brea tar pits in California reveals that sabre-toothed tigers and dire wolves had very high rates of osteochondrosis, which may stem from a dwindling gene pool as they neared extinction

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Life’s hidden laws: The arcane rules of evolution and how they work

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Birds from two different species raise chicks together in one nest

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Birds are using anti-bird spikes to make their nests

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Sex between two males is extremely common in wild macaque monkeys

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